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HURRICANE - AUBREY GHENT
Don your goulashes and batten down the hatches — it’s hurricane season in the Gulf South. Music to board up windows by and thoughts from the eye of the storm with sacred steel guitarist Aubrey Ghent, along with steamy sounds from Stevie Ray Vaughan, Charles Mingus, John Prine, and Marilyn Monroe.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: They Call Me Guitar Hurricane Stevie Ray Vaughan
In the Beginning, Epic - El Ramplago Narciso Martinez
Texas-Mexican Border Music Vol. 1, Arhoolie - Texas Tornado Doug Sahm
The Best of Doug Sahm & the Sir Douglas Quintet 1968-1975, Mercury - When The Levee Breaks Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie
Mojo Workin' - Blues For the Next Generation, Columbia/Legacy - Bad Weather Sonny Landreth
Outward Bound, Zoo/Praxis - L'Ouragon (The Hurricane) Michael & David Doucet
Master of the Folk Violin, Arhoolie - L'Anne de Secont Set Alex Broussard
French Music and Folk Song of Le Sud de la Louisianne, La Louisianne - Instrumental: Storm Warning Dr. John
Mos' Scoscious - The Dr. John Anthology, Rhino - Rain Children Sons of Andros
The Bahamas: Islands of Song, Smithsonian Folkways - Oh How It Rained Eddie Floyd
The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles 1968-1971, Stax - Tidal Wave Dick Dale
Better Shred Than Dead, Rhino - The Tide Is High The Paragons
Island 40, Vol. 2: 1964-1969 Rhythm & Blues Beat, Island - Deep Water Willie Nelson and Ray Price
San Antonio Rose, Columbia - Instrumental: Cake Left Out in the Rain Double Naught Spy Car
Comb in Blue Water, 11 Foot Pole - INTERVIEW: Aubrey Ghent
Listen - Troubled Waters Duke Ellington w/Ivie Anderson
Daybreak Express, RCA - Quiet Storm Smokey Robinson
A Quiet Storm, Motown - Eye of the Hurricane Nicholas Payton, Christian McBride, Mark Whitfield
Fingerpainting: The Music of Herbie Hancock, Verve
HOUR two
- Hurricane Connie Cannonball Adderley
Compact Jazz: Cannonball Adderley, EmArcy - Hurricanes Carla & Esther Lightning Hopkins
Po' Lightning, Arhoolie - Great Rain John Prine
The Missing Years, Oh Boy - Been in the Storm So Long Mrs. Mary Pickney
Been in the Storm So Long, Smithsonian Folkways - Rainy Night Lee Morgan
Charisma, Blue Note - Instrumental: Typhoon Cootie Williams & his Orchestra
The 1940s Mercury Sessions, Mercury - Florida Hurricane St. Louis Jimmy
The Aristocrat of the Blues, MCA/Chess - Emotional Weather Report Tom Waits
Nighthawks At the Diner, Asylum - INTERVIEW: John Guiney, National Hurricane Center
- Instrumental: Hawaii 5-O The Ventures
Monster Summer Hits - Wild Surf, Capitol - Heatwave Marilyn Monroe
The Essential Recordings, Wienerworld - The I Of Hurricane Sue Charles Mingus
Let My Children Hear Music, Columbia - Come Rain or Come Shine Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Vaughan in Hi-Fi, Columbia - Walkin to New Orleans Fats Domino
They Call Me the Fat Man…, Imperial - Louisiana 1927 Randy Newman
Good Old Boys, Reprise - End Bed: Backwater Blues Edgar Hayes & the Stardusters
Swing Time Records Story, Capricorn
